Author: Chris Bleakley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192595407
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Algorithms are the hidden methods that computers apply to process information and make decisions. Nowadays, our lives are run by algorithms. They determine what news we see. They influence which products we buy. They suggest our dating partners. They may even be determining the outcome of national elections. They are creating, and destroying, entire industries. Despite mounting concerns, few know what algorithms are, how they work, or who created them. Poems that Solve Puzzles tells the story of algorithms from their ancient origins to the present day and beyond. The book introduces readers to the inventors and inspirational events behind the genesis of the world's most important algorithms. Professor Chris Bleakley recounts tales of ancient lost inscriptions, Victorian steam-driven contraptions, top secret military projects, penniless academics, hippy dreamers, tech billionaires, superhuman artificial intelligences, cryptocurrencies, and quantum computing. Along the way, the book explains, with the aid of clear examples and illustrations, how the most influential algorithms work. Compelling and impactful, Poems that Solve Puzzles tells the story of how algorithms came to revolutionise our world.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198853734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Poems that Solve Puzzles is the biography of an idea. The idea that algorithms - sequences of simple step-by-step instructions - can solve the most complex problems. The book traces this idea from the earliest algorithms etched on clay tablets 4,000 years ago to the most recent discoveries in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
Author: May Swenson
Publisher: New York, Scribner 1966
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Each of the 35 selections in this collection is a poem to solve. Pointing out the fact that more is hidden in poetry than in prose, Swenson offers first a group of riddle poems, in which the subject is not named in either the title or text, followed by other verses all of which contain various hidden elements of meaning.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547822588
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Is this poetry? Math? A brainteaser? Yes! It’s all that and more. The poet J. Patrick Lewis has reimagined classic poems—such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Langston Hughes’s “April Rain Song”—and added a dash of math. Between the silly parodies and the wonderfully wacky art, kids will have so much fun figuring out the puzzles, they won’t guess they’re learning! Answers appear unobtrusively on each page, and engaging information about the original poets is included. Math games and concepts, poetry and poet biographies—it’s all so cleverly put together. This funny book is a treat for fans of words and numbers alike.
Author: Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578088916
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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A grand outgoing, heading directly into the puzzlement, the puzzle, puzzling it all out... Poems of search and devotion to the One, through labyrinthine manifestations... self and its various sheddings.
Author: John Marsh
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554814820
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The Puzzle of Poetry offers students a readable, reliable guide to understanding poetry. Instead of carving poems up into their elements, The Puzzle of Poetry describes how experienced readers of poems go about understanding them. Each line, sentence, or syntactical unit in a poem is a clue to the “puzzle.” As with crossword puzzles, figuring out the answer to one clue can help you figure out the answer to others. This book teaches the reader to check what they know in a poem against what else they know to find meaning, a systematic but creative approach that can help language to come alive. Each chapter contains a lively and personal discussion of one part of the art of reading poetry; a short guide to writing about poetry is also included. The book introduces students to a variety of poems, from Anglo-Saxon verse to Hamilton and Jay-Z.
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: May Swenson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780027887259
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This wonderful read-aloud volume introduces a new generation of youngsters to the work of May Swenson, the widely honored American poet who spent a lifetime celebrating the magic and mystery of the written word. Here are riddle poems, poems about animals, water, space, and more--each one is a poem to solve.
Author: Bob Raczka
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596435410
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
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Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle - this brand new poetic form turns word puzzles into poetry.
Author: Chris Bleakley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780191888168
Category : Algorithms
Languages : en
Pages :
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